The Secrets of Digital Photography: How to Take Great Photos with Your Camera, Smartphone & Tablet

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Digital cameras keep getting better, less expensive, and filled with more bells and whistles. Soon there will be a camera that will be able to read your blood pressure and provide your horoscope! As new products emerge, menus get more complicated, cameras become more automated, and it gets easier to take poor pictures . . . automatically. The secret to taking better photographs isn't buying a new camera every year. It's about learning the secrets of all the important parts of the camera you currently own, from digital cameras to smartphones and tablets, so you can take vastly better photographs. Let your camera do its job by learning how to control it. The Secrets of Digital Photography will help you take better photographs right away, and happily ever after.

C huck DeLaney has been a professional photographer for over thirty years. He started as an NYIP teacher in the 1970s, then became the director in 1998. As director of NYIP, supervising the creation of the School's courses, he's taught basic photography techniques to more people than anyone else in the field. He has written hundreds of articles about all aspects of photography and is the author of Top Travel Photo Tips, Photography Your Way: A Career Guide to Satisfaction and Success, and Wedding Photography and Video: The Bride and Groom's Guide. He lives in New York City.New York Institute of Photography, the copublisher, is the oldest and largest school of photography in the United States, with tremendous outreach to the photography community. Established in 1910, NYIP has grown to become the premier provider of distance photography training, educating more than 20,000 students in the United States and more than fifty countries at any given time. Famous graduates of the School include Douglas Kirkland, L. Ron Hubbard, Carmel Vitullo, Michael Doven, Paul Gilmore, Ernest Cole, Dilip Gupta, and Pulitzer Prize winner